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Lord Love a Duck

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An unusually gifted high school senior, Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowall), decides to direct his mental powers toward helping an innocent new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld), achieve her goal of popularity. With Alan's guidance, Barbara climbs the social ladder, finds a husband and eventually gets a shot at a glamorous movie career. But when Barbara's husband begins to get in the way of her ambitions, Alan will stop at nothing to make sure she reaches the top.

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Tom Milne Sight & Sound Lord Love a Duck looks and sounds exactly as one would expect: brilliantly, inconsequentially, anarchically funny, and full of kooky characters. Mar 19, 2020 Full Review Pauline Kael McCall's After we’ve sat, laughing occasionally but mainly being rather appalled by this exhibition of lack of control, we are preached at from the screen for our tiny minds and our family spray deodorants. Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Frank J. Avella Edge Media Network Lord Love a Duck is a wildly subversive, scathing satire with an often-twisted, swirling sexual energy. Rated: A- Sep 24, 2020 Full Review Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com Rated: 2/5 May 7, 2007 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Kooky satire. Rated: A- Feb 16, 2007 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 17, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Dated, unwatchable '60's drek, think Blobbo. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A charming coming-of-age tale centering on a too-smart-for-his-own-good ne'er do well and the gal he fancies as his friend. A very smart script edited well. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Released the year after the equally wonderfully odd and quirky The Loved One, but aimed at a much younger audience. The Mid 60's and early 70's were a golden era for black comedy/satire. From Dr Strangelove to Horold and Maude and much in between. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Subtitle: An Act of Pure Agression Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Almost surreal, and one really tripped out movie made before the hippie generation took over and made crass humor, this is a story about a boy geinus who hooks up with a hot chick pre graduation from high school and he makes it his life's work to help her out to get anything her heart desires. Full of innuendo and more running amuck than a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the story leads us down on a wacky path then switchs gears and comes to holt only to spin around for one big loop to start the crazy movie all over again. Amazing cast of Tuesday Weld and Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon as there funniest and most absurb. Very black and dark comedy, terrific companion piece to the English film Morgan! Not for all tastes but for those with wits and brains this is a gem! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member year s/b 1966 not 2000 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An unusually gifted high school senior, Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowall), decides to direct his mental powers toward helping an innocent new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld), achieve her goal of popularity. With Alan's guidance, Barbara climbs the social ladder, finds a husband and eventually gets a shot at a glamorous movie career. But when Barbara's husband begins to get in the way of her ambitions, Alan will stop at nothing to make sure she reaches the top.
Director
George Axelrod
Producer
George Axelrod
Screenwriter
George Axelrod, Al Hine, Larry H. Johnson
Distributor
United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co
Charleston Productions
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 21, 1966, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 13, 2017
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Mono